Fun Saturday

I coached Ben's basketball team last year ... don't remember how many games we played; maybe 10, but we lost every single one of them.  We still had lots of fun, but didn't do much winning.  In fact, in the last game of the season last year, we were neck and neck with the other team and almost won - the boys were so excited.

Then last week, was Ben's flag football game - the Chargers.  I'm the coach of the team.  Last week we played the Raiders.  They were a very well-coached team.  Our team ... well it had a winless coach :-(  We scored first, but then the Raiders scored 37 unaswered points.  Our little Chargers team re-grouped for this week's game.

This week we played the Ravens.  We went up two scores before they scored.  We held them off and ended up scoring two more times for a 25-12 win.

Before today's football game, my little scout troop, along with another leader and two dads, went on an 11 mile bike ride.  It was quite the ride - especially on this muggy day.

After the football game, Emma and I went out to Sonic for some Sonic ice cream blasts.  I owed her a Sonic blast because she got a 100% on her math test.  The story behind this is that her math teacher was trying some funky new way to solve percentage problems (tax, discount, etc).  I taught Emma a different way to solve those problems ... then we practiced and practiced.  She got a 50% on the quiz ahead of the test.  So we worked more on it.  At that point, I told her if she got 100%, then I'd take her out for a Sonic blast - a large Sonic blast.  The test day came and she ended up with an 80%, but here's the catch - the teacher sent out an email and basically said that all the kids did so horribly, that they were going to do a re-test.  It turns out Emma had one of the best grades.  So we worked a bit more on it before the re-take.  She took it a 2nd time and aced it!  We were so proud of her.  So we finally were able to go to Sonic today.

Later - after Erick and Camille get back from birthday parties, we are going to Ikea as we need a futon for when our company comes later this week.

It's a hectic, but fun Saturday.